From the headbands to the cleats.

The jerseys to the socks.

This is what history looks like.

• Nike is sponsoring Alonso and Robinson flag football teams this season.
• Each school received about $22,000 worth of gear, including cleats and uniforms.
• Alonso is the two-time defending 2A state champion; Robinson has won four-straight 1A titles, five overall.

Alonso vs. Robinson could possibly be the best dressed flag football game in the country.

"It’s a good look," Alonso head coach Matt Hernandez said.

For the first time ever, Nike is sponsoring two high school flag football teams. And both just happen to reside in the Tampa Bay area.

Nike decks out a lot of the top names in sports. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, LeBron James. Now, Alonso and Robinson flag football.

"The brand means a ton and the experience to be associated with a group like that has been priceless to our kids," Hernandez said.

Priceless because you can’t put a price tag on the exposure a national brand can bring to a sport still finding its way and trying to further its cause.

"Ten years ago, I don’t think any of us in the sport could have imagined it get to this level," Hernandez said.

"From where flag football started to where it is now to where Nike thinks that sponsoring us is something that will help them go towards their goal of putting high school flag football in all 50 states," Robinson head coach Josh Saunders said. "The whole thing is unbelievable."

Reality is slowly sinking in.

Christmas came early for Alonso and Robinson players. The day their Nike gear arrived, players ripped open shoe boxes, unzipped backpacks full of jerseys and shorts and socks and marveled at their school logo aligned with the Nike swoop.

"It’s really overwhelming, honestly," Robinson senior wide receiver/safety Rachel Clark said. "To spread this sport and spread this community in our sport, it’s amazing. It’s an amazing feeling."

It’s memories for a lifetime.

"It’s not something that they’ll forget," Saunders said. "You won’t forget the day that Nike came in and just gave you all of these things. It is something that you will remember forever."

These two teams have already created plenty of memories with the multiple state championships they’ve won. Alonso claimed back-to-back class 2A titles in 2018 and 19, while Robinson has won five of the past six championships, including four-straight 1A titles. Still, it takes a name like Nike to really validate the sport.

A sense of belonging, simply from a pair of shoes and a headband.

"The work they put in year round and the efforts they do and the success they’ve had , this is another thing that says, hey, you mean something," Hernandez said.

Validation. It’s everywhere for these female flag football players. It’s in a game at the Tampa Bay Bucs training facility. And it’s on every piece of their brand new uniforms.

"I don’t know how they can have a better experience in a sport in high school," Hernandez said. "And feel more special and feel more like what they’re doing matters a whole lot to a lot of people than they are in the beginning of our season."